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enNew High in U.S. Say Immigration Most Important Problemhttps://www.oregonir.org/issues/new-high-us-say-immigration-most-important-problem
<div class="field field-name-field-art-author field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Jeffrey M. Jones</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-publisher field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article publisher:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Gallup</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, June 24, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-importance field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Medium</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/immigration">immigration</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/legal-immigration">legal immigration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/illegal-immigration">illegal immigration</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/cost">cost</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/illegal-aliens">illegal aliens</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/congress">Congress</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/growth-0">growth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article Body:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
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23% mention immigration as most important problem, highest in Gallup trends
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The government is the most commonly mentioned problem, at 26%
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Most Americans still say immigration a good thing for the U.S.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' concern with immigration continues to be heightened, as 23% name it the most important problem facing the country. This is by one percentage point the highest Gallup has ever measured for the issue since it first began recording mentions of immigration in 1993.
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<img alt="Line graph. Americans’ mentions of immigration as the country’s most important problem reached a high of 23% in June." src="https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/zbpntxgut0ee6kwgcbxvwg.png" /></div>
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The June 3-16 poll was conducted as the U.S. continues to grapple with how to handle a surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexican border. Gallup has previously found spikes in mentions of immigration as the most important U.S. problem at other times when the immigration debate intensified, including:
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<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/237389/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">22% in July 2018</a> amid controversy over a U.S. policy to separate children and parents who were trying to enter the U.S. illegally
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<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/173306/one-six-say-immigration-important-problem.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">17% in July 2014</a>, when a wave of young immigrants from Central American countries crossed the U.S. border illegally
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<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/22474/Immigration-Gas-Prices-Climb-Most-Important-Problem-List.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">19% in April 2006</a> as the Senate worked toward passage of a comprehensive immigration reform bill it later passed but ultimately was not considered by the House of Representatives
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Mentions of immigration have been higher on average in 2019 than in any prior year. The 20% average to date compares with 14% in 2018, and no more than 10% in any other year.
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Yet immigration has typically finished behind the government as the nation's top problem over the past three years, and did so again this month, when 26% of Americans named the government. Government has finished ahead of immigration in all but two months since February 2017 (July and November 2018). This included a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/246800/record-high-name-government-important-problem.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">record 35% naming the government</a> in February.
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Concern about the government is broadly distributed across the three major partisan groups, with 32% of Democrats and 23% of both Republicans and independents currently identifying it as the most important problem. In contrast, immigration mentions are far more common among Republicans (42%) than Democrats (7%). Twenty-one percent of independents name it.
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<strong>One in Three Want Immigration Levels Decreased</strong><br /></h3>
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Asked their preferences for U.S. immigration levels, 37% of Americans say it should be kept at its present level, while more say it should be decreased (35%) than increased (27%). The percentage wanting immigration reduced is higher than the average 30% holding this view in Gallup's two prior surveys, in January 2019 and July 2018. However, in the past, many more Americans have called for a reduction than do so now, including 41% in June 2014, 58% in October 2001 (after 9/11), and a record 65% in the mid-1990s during a surge of illegal immigration in California.
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In recent years, there has been an uptick in the percentage who want immigration to the U.S. increased. Before 2012, the percentage never reached 20%, but it has been above that mark since, including a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/246455/solid-majority-opposes-new-construction-border-wall.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">record 30% in January</a>.
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<img alt="Line graph. Among Americans, 37% want immigration kept at current levels, 35% would prefer it decreased and 27% increased." src="https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/8ridcnmgikmmf3jxtwuxia.png" /></div>
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As their differences in perceptions of immigration as the most important problem would suggest, partisans have divergent views on U.S. immigration levels. A slim majority of Republicans, 54%, want them decreased, while 31% want them kept the same and 13% increased. Democrats are about equally likely to prefer increased immigration (43%) as to want current levels maintained (42%); just 13% want immigration cut. Independents' views essentially match those of all U.S. adults.
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<strong>Public Mixed in Assessment of Immigration's Effects</strong><br /></h3>
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Even as they acknowledge immigration as one of the nation's most pressing problems, Americans still view immigration positively in general, with 76% describing it as a good thing for the country today and 19% as a bad thing. Since Gallup first asked this question in 2001, no fewer than 52% have affirmed immigration's value, with the current year's figure the highest to date by one point.
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<img alt="Line graph. Three-quarters, 76%, of Americans say immigration is good for the country, 19% say it is bad for the U.S." src="https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/qb3vc6ciuegomt8gixe4lq.png" /></div>
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Notably, two-thirds of Americans who identify immigration as the most important problem still believe it is a good thing for the country.
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Democrats (87%) are much more likely than Republicans (62%) to say immigration is a good thing, with 78% of independents holding that view.
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Americans' assessments of the effect of immigration on six aspects of U.S. society are mixed. In two areas -- the economy and food, music, and the arts -- more believe immigration has made the situation better than made it worse. The public is divided as to immigration's effects on social and moral values and job opportunities for their family, but more evaluate immigration's effect on crime and taxes negatively than positively.
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Americans' Views of Immigration's Impact Mixed
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For each of the following areas, please say whether immigrants to the United States are making the situation in the country better or worse, or not having much effect. How about -- [RANDOM ORDER]?
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<table aria-describedby="summary-20190621140827" aria-labelledby="caption-20190621140827"><tr><p> </p>
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Gallup, June 3-16, 2019
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</tr><tbody><tr><p>Food, music and the arts</p>
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57
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
10
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
32
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<td data-th="Net (% Better - % Worse)" data-thunit="pct. pts.">
+47
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</tr><tr><p>The economy in general</p>
<td data-th="Better" data-thunit="%">
43
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
31
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
25
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<td data-th="Net (% Better - % Worse)" data-thunit="pct. pts.">
+12
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</tr><tr><p>Social and moral values</p>
<td data-th="Better" data-thunit="%">
31
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
28
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
39
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<td data-th="Net (% Better - % Worse)" data-thunit="pct. pts.">
+3
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</tr><tr><p>Job opportunities for you and your family</p>
<td data-th="Better" data-thunit="%">
19
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
25
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
56
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-6
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</tr><tr><p>Taxes</p>
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20
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
42
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
37
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<td data-th="Net (% Better - % Worse)" data-thunit="pct. pts.">
-22
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</tr><tr><p>The crime situation</p>
<td data-th="Better" data-thunit="%">
7
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<td data-th="Worse" data-thunit="%">
42
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<td data-th="No effect" data-thunit="%">
50
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-35
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Americans' opinions on the impact immigration has on these aspects of society have shifted in a more positive direction over the past two decades. Specifically, the public is much more positive today about immigration's effect on the economy and job opportunities <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/4693/americans-mixed-opinions-about-immigration.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">than they were in 2001</a>, when Gallup first asked the question. While still negative overall today, Americans are less negative about immigration's effect on taxes and the crime situation than they were 18 years ago.
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Probing further on immigration's impact on the economy, the poll asked Americans whether immigrants "mostly help the economy by providing low-cost labor" or "mostly hurt the economy by driving down wages for many Americans." For the first time, a majority of Americans say immigrants mostly help the economy, with 55% holding this view, compared with 37% who see immigrants as harming the economy. In 1993 and 2004 surveys, large majorities of Americans saw immigrants as detrimental to the economy.
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<img alt="Line graph. More than half, 55%, of Americans see immigrants as mostly helping the U.S. economy; 37% see them as hurting it." src="https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/oiah9kvfwu2skpcose3uxq.png" /></div>
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Republicans disagree with Democrats and independents on the effect of immigration on the economy. Whereas 60% of Republicans see immigration as hurting the economy, 72% of Democrats and 58% of independents believe it helps.
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<strong>Implications</strong><br /></h3>
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At a time when Americans are more likely to name immigration as the most important problem facing the country than any in recent memory, they hold mixed views about it. They still see immigration as a good thing for the country, and more believe it benefits than harms the economy. About one-third want to see immigration levels reduced, but that is a lower proportion than in past surveys, including times when fewer Americans viewed immigration as a pressing U.S. problem.
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The issue continues to challenge U.S. lawmakers, as Congress and Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been unable to enact meaningful legislation to stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the country and develop a plan for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. As such, the issue promises to remain a major one in the coming presidential election.
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<em><a href="https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/259121/190621Immigration.pdf?g_source=link_newsv9&amp;g_campaign=item_259103&amp;g_medium=copy">View complete question responses and trends</a>.</em>
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<em>Learn more about how the <a href="http://www.gallup.com/201200/gallup-poll-social-series-work.aspx?utm_source=link_newsv9&amp;utm_campaign=item_259103&amp;utm_medium=copy">Gallup Poll Social Series</a> works.</em>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-final-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article final link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/259103/new-high-say-immigration-important-problem.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Read the original article</a></div></div></div>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 02:05:01 +0000Cynthia Kendoll3103 at https://www.oregonir.orghttps://www.oregonir.org/issues/new-high-us-say-immigration-most-important-problem#commentsMass Migration Harms the Environment – Earth Day Messagehttps://www.oregonir.org/blog/mass-migration-harms-environment-%E2%80%93-earth-day-message
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/environment">environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/population">population</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/immigration">immigration</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/growth-0">growth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
<strong><a href="http://www.oregonir.org/about-ofir-oregonians-immigration-reform">OFIR</a> was founded partly because of the need to alert Oregonians and U.S. citizens to the environmental consequences of excessive immigration levels.</strong>
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Following is an excellent summary reminding us of the destructive effects on our environment caused by mass migration. The statement was issued by the<em> </em><a href="https://www.irli.org/">Immigration Reform law Institute</a><em>, </em>on the occasion of Earth Day, 2019<em>. </em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day">Earth Day</a> is observed annually on April 22, throughout the world.
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“On Earth Day, we should all recognize our responsibility to be good stewards of our environment,” said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI. “Those who advocate against borders and reasonable immigration controls are acting irresponsibly and causing great damage to our planet. An effective plan to protect our environment must recognize the role that mass migration plays in boosting CO2 emissions and pollution to dangerous levels.”
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<strong>637 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually</strong>
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Immigration-generated population growth is fueling an increase in energy demand and the waste product that accompanies it. Immigrants to the United States alone <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeDo1N0Au2xdO3rdu5lR9Jv7Dk7DVbN%2BCS1kIg1Ga47f8sXymclgZuHzJ0S4pTlf%2FkA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fcis.org%2FImmigration-United-States-and-WorldWide-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-0&amp;I=20190422050046.000001dcf763%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYmQxMTM4NGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YjYwZTs%3D&amp;S=cQBaxMDWaQNigwQ888jzJjEL2qu_H05Lx_sJcyfXVPA">produce</a> about four times more CO2 in the United States as they would have in their countries of origin. U.S. immigrants produce an estimated 637 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually — equal to Great Britain and Sweden combined. Strangely, governments that stress the urgency of addressing climate change are also some of the biggest opponents of border enforcement and immigration limits.
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<strong>Mass migration grows America’s carbon footprint</strong>
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One of the most popular talking points of climate change advocates is that the United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, yet consumes about a quarter of the world’s fossil fuel resources. If that is true, then why do some of the same people support immigration policies that significantly increase American fuel consumption as well as its carbon footprint? The two positions are wildly inconsistent.
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<strong>Global climate hypocrisy </strong>
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While issuing apocalyptic warnings about climate change, the United Nations simultaneously encourages countries to accept even more migrants. After the Trump administration pulled the United States out of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeDo1N0Au2xdO3rdu5lR9Jv7Dk7DVbN%2BCS1kIg1Ga47f8sXymclgZuHzJ0S4pTlf%2FkA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2018%2Fnov%2F20%2Fpoland-joins-us-dissenters-un-migration-proposal%2F&amp;I=20190422050046.000001dcf763%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYmQxMTM4NGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YjYwZTs%3D&amp;S=muAyDjjfgrsxYPGz8VDowK138ealz7Hy_-M-AC6u_Oc">followed suit</a>. Austria and Slovakia have also indicated they will act similarly. Their objection is that the pact may encourage more illegal alien arrivals and is not in the interests of the host country.
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<strong>Border trash is piling up</strong>
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The environmental damage from mass migration extends beyond just increased CO2 output. The land around our southern border is riddled with trash, and it is directly proportional to the numbers of those who make the perilous journey to enter our country illegally.
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According to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, in fiscal years 2011 and 2012, when Arizona was experiencing over 120,000 border apprehensions, over 65,000 pounds of <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeDo1N0Au2xdO3rdu5lR9Jv7Dk7DVbN%2BCS1kIg1Ga47f8sXymclgZuHzJ0S4pTlf%2FkA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wnd.com%2F2018%2F09%2Fillegal-immigration-creating-monster-trash-crisis%2F&amp;I=20190422050046.000001dcf763%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYmQxMTM4NGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YjYwZTs%3D&amp;S=pS8UI4QQ9NvNFoFUii-vRqCrTvMt61QjHInn1MkImCk">border trash</a> was being collected annually. That’s more than 32 tons of garbage—plastic water bottles, abandoned vehicles, human waste, medical products and much more—on the ground. In the following years, as apprehensions fell as low as 70,000, border trash collections dropped as well – reaching a low of just 19,000 pounds in fiscal year 2015 before jumping back up in 2016. This is only one of our four southern border states, and not even the largest.
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<strong>Our government needs to act</strong>
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With this kind of pollution caused by mass migration, surely our federal government is on the case. That assumption would be wrong. IRLI has <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeDo1N0Au2xdO3rdu5lR9Jv7Dk7DVbN%2BCS1kIg1Ga47f8sXymclgZuHzJ0S4pTlf%2FkA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irli.org%2Fsingle-post%2F2018%2F08%2F21%2FStop-Turning-a-Blind-Eye-to-Mass-Immigration%25E2%2580%2599s-Environmental-Impact&amp;I=20190422050046.000001dcf763%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYmQxMTM4NGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YjYwZTs%3D&amp;S=8mRt3JkKrPYZL6KIElZvjTN6PTO8cGAznZ-QDuLsZmQ">argued</a> that federal immigration-regulating agencies—in particular, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security—have ignored the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our nation’s preeminent environmental law, for decades. Since it became law nearly a half century ago, NEPA has required any agency, before implementing actions or programs that will affect the environment, to issue an Environmental Impact Statement analyzing and publicizing those effects. The federal government’s immigration programs are probably the most environmentally consequential programs there are, yet no such analysis has ever been done.
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See the news release as issued by IRLI at: <a href="https://www.irli.org/single-post/2019/04/21/Earth-Day-Message-Mass-Migration-Harms-the-Environment">https://www.irli.org/single-post/2019/04/21/Earth-Day-Message-Mass-Migration-Harms-the-Environment</a>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 01:05:42 +0000E Van Staaveren3057 at https://www.oregonir.orghttps://www.oregonir.org/blog/mass-migration-harms-environment-%E2%80%93-earth-day-message#commentsStatue of Liberty Declares: STOP IMMIGRATION! https://www.oregonir.org/blog/statue-liberty-declares-stop-immigration
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<span>by Tim Murray</span><br /></h4>
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<span><span class="initials">M</span>aybe you haven’t heard the terrible news. The United States, like almost every nation on the planet, is in serious population overshoot. This is a vastly different world than the one Emma Lazarus lived in. Hers was an America of seemingly unlimited resources. Ours is one of Limits to Growth.
<p>Yes, there are still vast tracts of America that are sparsely populated. But it is not about how many people a nation can contain but how many it can sustain. The United States has a limited ecological carrying capacity, and there is every indication that it has been exceeded.</p>
<p>That is not only a disaster for us, but a catastrophe for the world. Put it this way. The very last thing that Mother Nature needs is another American consumer. Migration from less developed countries to developed nations like ours has a “multiplier” effect. The average migrant to the United States, for example, quadruples his GHG emissions upon arrival, and this applies to the consumption of resources as well. This is not surprising. After all, most immigrants come here precisely because they want to consume more. They want to enjoy the good life, or at least a materially better life, for themselves and their children.</p>
<p>To prospective immigrants I would say this. Our working poor and IT workers do not need your competition. Our bulging prisons and crowded classrooms cannot accommodate you. Our fruit and vegetable crops do not need you to harvest them. Our service and hospitality sector does not need your labour, nor does the home construction industry. We have Americans to do those jobs. All they need is a decent wage, and without immigration, there is a good chance that they would get it.</p>
<p>The era of smokestack industries and family farms is over. The era of A. I. and robots is soon to unfold. The demand for menial labor will plummet. We will be hard put to employ our working poor, never mind the global poor that Emma Lazarus and her modern day equivalents would welcome. In other words, your services will not be required.</p>
<p>So here’s some advice. Turn around and go back from whence you came. If things are still too rough at home, chances are that you can find suitable sanctuary in a country located in the same region. And if you do manage to make it back, could you please convey this message to your compatriots: Take responsibility for your family size. Understand that scarcity and the conflict that issues from it are in a large part a consequence of your nation’s runaway population growth. If your nation cannot grow the pie, it can, through aggressive family planning programs, increase the size of per capita “slices” by reducing the number of diners at the table.</p>
<p>I think you are a victim of a misunderstanding. The Statue of Liberty was meant to tell you that liberty, democracy and the rule of law can set the citizens of your country free. It was a prescription for good government, not an invitation to come and settle here. The Lazarus poem was an add-on twenty years after the statue was erected, and not congruent with the statement that the Statue was making. Immigration and liberty are apples and oranges.</p>
<p>In fact, higher population density requires more regulations and laws. Population growth is inversely correlated to liberty. As Isaac Asimov said in his famous “bathroom” metaphor. If there is only one tenant and one bathroom in an apartment, the tenant has “freedom of the bathroom”. He can access the bathroom at any time. But once another tenant or tenants come to share that same apartment, the original occupant must compete to use the bathroom. Rules of use or etiquette ensue. Tenants have no unrestricted freedom to use the bathroom whenever they like. And the more tenants who move in, the more restricted the residents will be.</p>
<p>Perhaps a name change would clarify the message. You have heard of the Statute of Limitations. I think Lady Liberty should be rechristened as the Statue of Limitations, and her torch be replaced by a stop sign.</p></span><br /></h4>
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<span>Published by the Council of European Canadians<br />
Read the full article <a href="https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2019/04/statue-of-liberty-declares-stop-immigration.html#disqus_thread">here</a>.</span><br /></h4>
</div></div></div>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 03:48:27 +0000Cynthia Kendoll3046 at https://www.oregonir.orghttps://www.oregonir.org/blog/statue-liberty-declares-stop-immigration#commentsIllegal Aliens Escalate Amnesty Demands, Claim Racismhttps://www.oregonir.org/issues/illegal-aliens-escalate-amnesty-demands-claim-racism
<div class="field field-name-field-art-author field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Neil Munro</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-publisher field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article publisher:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Breitbart</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, October 12, 2017</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-importance field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Medium</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/jobs">jobs</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/illegal-immigration">illegal immigration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/amnesty">amnesty</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/daca">DACA</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/democrat">Democrat</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/society">society</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/growth-0">growth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article Body:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
<strong>Top Democrats and business allies invited reporters to a Capitol Hill event to watch illegal immigrants demand amnesty and smear Republicans as racist, in Spanish and broken English.</strong>
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“I’m here representing all the immigrant mothers like myself, will not allow the government to tear down our sons’ and daughters’ dreams while they try to separate our families,” said Lenka Mendoza, an unskilled illegal alien - saying:
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The president does not care about our children and our families. Trump and his government supposed priorities are nothing else but an anti-immigrant and white-supremacist agenda that don’t solve anything … need clean act now.”
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Mendoza was welcomed to the podium by Todd Schulte, a Democratic political activist who is president of <a href="http://fwd.us/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">FWD.us</a>, a lobbying group formed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg...
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In his October 8 letter to Congress, Trump <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/09/white-house-immigration-priorities-exclude-repatriation-include-cuts-chain-migration/">said</a>:
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These findings outline reforms that must be included as part of any legislation addressing the status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Without these reforms, illegal immigration and chain migration, which severely and unfairly burden American workers and taxpayers, will continue without end.
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Immigration reform must create more jobs, higher wages, and greater security for Americans — now and for future generations. The reforms outlined in the enclosure are necessary to ensure prosperity, opportunity, and safety for every member of our national family.
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Instead of urging compromise, Schulte’s speakers upped their demands, saying they want an amnesty for young ‘dreamer’ illegals plus an amnesty for their parents...
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The escalating demands and aggressive rhetoric from Schulte’s illegals were <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/05/lindsey-graham-daca-bigger-amnesty-immigration/">much sharper</a> than the prior soft-spoken claims...
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A second illegal, Ingrid Vaca, said she arrived in the United States from Bolivia in 2000. “I came to this country with dreams to protect my sons and to give them a better future,” she said in heavily accented English, adding: I would not let anything stand in their way.”
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Vaca continued:
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DACA away was taken away by Trump and his racist advisors, Jeff Sessions and Steven Miller … We will not let racist men negotiate with our kids’ lives … We will not allow our families to be broken up … A mother’s love is stronger than the racists from the White House.
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The escalated demands from the illegal aliens are compatible with Schulte’s goals...
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The RAISE Act is a problem for Schulte’s investors because it would halve the inflow of new customers and workers, and –worse — it would prevent the investors from pushing Congress to pass the so-called “staple” green card proposal.
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The proposed “<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3089314/it-careers/clinton-wants-to-staple-green-cards-on-stem-grads-diplomas.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">staple</a>” visa program would allow foreign students at U.S. universities to receive a green card stapled to their graduate degree. It is very popular among business groups because it would create a huge wave of salary-cutting white-collar competition in the skilled job sectors where young Americans hope to earn a good living. The salary-cutting competition would be intensified by the government’s offer of the very valuable prize of citizenship to foreign graduates who take jobs sought by the 800,000 Americans who graduate from college each year with skilled degrees in business and medicine, engineering, architecture and science, technology, math and chemical engineering.
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But Schulte’s investors won’t get their staple proposal — or any increase in <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/dhs-obama-gave-2-3-million-work-permits-migrants-2016/">white-collar H-1B</a> outsourcing — if Trump and the voters pressure Democrats to accept Trump’s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/09/white-house-fairness-polls-show-huge-support-trumps-immigration-priorities/">popular</a> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/09/text-white-house-statement-immigration-priorities/">immigration principles</a> in exchange for a limited amnesty.
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The third illegal alien introduced by Schulte was Luis Condorimay, who migrated to the United States from Peru at age 13 and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-c/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">earned</a> a 2016 degree in chemical engineering.
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An amnesty for just younger illegals is unacceptable if it does not also include their parents, he insisted. “This is just not something I can do. Would you accept a law where you protect yourself … but hurt your father and mother?”
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He also spoke against any border and enforcement upgrades, and described the illegal-alien communities as the victims........
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Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
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But business groups have used their political power to tilt the labor market in their favor, via the federal policy of importing 1 million consumers and workers each year...
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That Washington-imposed economic policy of mass-immigration <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/28/two-four-six-fast-facts-donald-trumps-first-immigration-report/">floods</a> the market with <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/14/goldman-sachs-almost-one-million-h-1b-foreign-workers-hold-university-level-jobs/">foreign labor</a>, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/21/moodys-trump-immigration-labor-reform/">spikes profits and Wall Street values</a> by <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/22/national-academies-hides-500-billion-immigration-tax/">cutting salaries</a> for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/15/immigration-pushes-property-prices-spurs-american-migration-southwards/">real estate prices</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-mobility-america/491240/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">widens wealth-gaps</a>, reduces <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/paul-ryan-wants-migrants-milk-cows-not-robots/">high-tech investment</a>, increases <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/21/national-academies-immigrants-cost-state-and-local-taxpayers-57-4-billion-per-year/">state and local tax burdens</a>, hurts <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/immigrant-surge-pressures-distant-cities/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">kids’ schools </a>and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/21/hidden-federal-opt-program-helps-330000-foreign-graduates-get-us-jobs/">college education</a>, pushes Americans <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/05/industry-universities-hide-workforce-100000-extra-foreign-white-collar-h-1b-employees/">away from high-tech careers</a>, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/13/obamas-top-economist-admits-feds-jobs-policy-is-as-painful-as-five-recessions/">Americans</a> and their families, including many who are now struggling with <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/27/unemployment-pushes-addiction-deaths/">opioid addictions</a>.
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The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor...
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Americans <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/20/media-hides-daca-pollings/">tell pollsters</a> that they strongly oppose amnesties and cheap-labor immigration, even as most Americans also want to favor legal immigrants, and many sympathize with illegals.
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Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/12/census-bureau-mens-wages-remain-1973-levels/">flat since 1973</a>, and a growing percentage of the nation’s annual income is shifting to investors and away from employees.
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-art-final-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Article final link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/12/fwd-us-illegals-escalate-amnesty-demands-claim-racism/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Read the original article</a></div></div></div>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 02:49:58 +0000Cynthia Kendoll2729 at https://www.oregonir.orghttps://www.oregonir.org/issues/illegal-aliens-escalate-amnesty-demands-claim-racism#comments